Title page vignette (Mustela) also used on p. 605

Head- and tail-pieces; initials; side-notes

"Continentur in hoc volumine, Gulielmi Rondeletii quoque medicinae professoris regij in schola Monspeliensi, & Petri Bellonij Cenomani, medici hoc tempore Lutetiae eximij, de aquatilium singulis scripta. Paralipomena quaedam ad finem adiecta sunt."

The numbers 809-828 are repeated in the pagination sequence with different text. Pages 64, 65, 76, 126, 264, 289, 322, 336, 342, 359, 476, 480, 507, 539, 540, 606, 964, 991, 20 and 37 misnumbered 60, 63, 62, 130, 263, 288, 242, 426, 344, 369, 466, 408, 508, 514, 542, 605, 974, 990, 10 and 38 respectively

Signatures: a-b⁶ *⁸ A-4T⁶ 4V⁸ a-b⁶ c⁴(- c₄) d⁴; leaves I4 and 2nd b1 signed [lamda]4 and B respectively

Includes indexes

citation/reference: Wellisch, H. Conrad Gessner, 26.2

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Enumeratio authorum: p. [19]-[22] (1st group)

Wellisch, H. Conrad Gessner

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SCNHRB copy 39088016899775 is stamped on t.p.: National Zoological Park; overstamped: Cancelled; written in ink: 488

SCNHRB copy is stamped on verso of t.p.: Ludwig K. Schmarda; Smithsonian National Zoological Park Institution [overstamped] Cancelled; Smithsonian Institution Aug 23 1944 National Museum [in red] 326594

SCNHRB copy has worm holes slightly affecting the text on leaves from gatherings 3V and 3Y; there is a smal hole in p. 773-774 (leaf 3T3). Many text leaves are heavily foxed. The final leaf has been reinforced with a stiffer sheet of paper on the blank verso side

SCNHRB copy has some dried and pressed botanical specimens found in the volume (a flower similar to a daffodil found between p. 974 and 975; some other small plant pieces found between p. 706 and 707) transferred to archival envelopes and laid in

SCNHRB copy has an old gilt-tooled, tree-stained full leather binding with raised bands, marbled endpapers, and all edges gilt. Housed in a later linen-covered box with printed spine label

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